Jose Colaco <colaco1@...>
wrote on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:56 PM:

«please, Fernandobab..... please do NOT place these Islands in the
«Bay of Bengal. That they are NOT!
«
«These Islands with a negrito population - are NEXT to Indonesia and
«Thailand.»,

commenting Fernando do Rego's «Andaman: as ilhas na Baia da Bengala que foram
mais afectadas da India e onde ainda algumas ilhotas, desapareceram do mapa»
(Andaman: the islands in the Bay of Bengal which were the most affected [region]
of India, and where even some islets disappeared from the map).

I wonder where Dr. Jose Colaco got the notion that the Andaman and Nicobar
islands ARE NOT in the Bay of Bengal. The fact that they are some 500-odd miles
from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and are practically adjoining the
coastline of Thailand (and of Malaysia) is by no means impeditive of them
falling in the Bay of Bengal. This is what Collier's Encyclopaedia has to say:

«ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS, two chains of islands in the Bay of Bengal that
together constitute a Union territory of India ...».

What Jose could perhaps have said is that it is not true that the Andamans were
the region of India
most affected by the "maremoto" (not "mar-moto"), as there were - I think - far
more dead, disappeared and injured people in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra
Pradesh than in the U.T. of Andman and Nicobar.

Jorge